Gora (region)
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Gora (Гора) is a geographical region in southern Kosovo, mostly inhabited by the Gorani people. Between 1992 and 1999, Gora was a municipality, and its population was 17,574 people according to 1991 census. Today, the region is part of the municipality of Dragaš.
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[edit] Name
Name "Gora" is a Slavic word for "Mountain" or "Forest".
[edit] History
Gora is mentioned for the first time in 1348 in the edicts of Emperor Stefan Dushan as a Zhupa of the Serbian Empire, composed out of seven villages that Dushan gifted to his Monastery of Saint Archangel near Prizren. Its second mention is in 1452/5 in the Turkish cadestral tax censuses as the "Nachy of Gora" within the Ottoman Empire, the town forming part of the Ottoman province of Macedonia.
[edit] Demographics
According to 1991 census data, the population of the Gora municipality was composed of:
- Slavic Muslims or Gorani (91.68%)
- Albanians (5.35%)
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